Man, I didn't mean to get people fear mongering about this... This is completely normal, inoffensive, they've been doing it for decades, and you agreed to it when you signed up for your Nintendo account. You can even disable it here, if you'd like: accounts.nintendo.com/privacy

OK, here's my "the (English) Pokemon Pokémon game for the Nintendo Switch system" cursory analysis. First of all, I dumped the game to immediately discover the most sad romfs ever:

they removed the n64 trees new pokemon gen looks visually good wtf

important video www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5ls...

$20 is automatically overpriced for a GBA ROM, but what do you MEAN each language is a separate purchase??? That is *offensive*. And no, "but they did it on 3DS a million years ago" doesn't make it OK. And "well it's better than buying the og cart for $500" isn't helpful either.

The Virtual Boy Classics app uses Lua scripts for everything, so it'd be trivial to mod it to work in docked mode and render a fullscreen 2D image, but I think people who want that are missing the fact that these games were designed for 3D and don't play very well without it.

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Here are the other supported codes: BEE = SW2 HAC = SW HAD = SW (revision) HDH = SW Lite HEG = SW OLED The Switches have a convention of starting with H. OSM doesn't fit this convention for either SW or SW2. The image is probably placeholder. This seems like something different.

deltarune fans are currently datamining the frontend of a website because they think it will reveal secrets that would be in the backend >.>

i can't believe they actually just teased gabe newell and then sung a song about how the game awards will never let you down instead

ok he knows what he's doing

LMAO THEY SHOWED KOJIMA WHEN GEOFF SHOWED UP

I played through the first area of Metroid Prime 4 on Switch 2 and it's great but... there's no option to invert the Y axis for mouse controls. You can for literally everything else, but not mouse. :| I was looking forward to playing that way, but not without that option.

I was planning to build a PC this December. But the laptop I'd been using as my main machine died earlier this year, which prompted me to build it three months earlier. This was a blessing in disguise. The 64 GB RAM kit I bought in September for ~$250 is now ~$800.

What the FUCK do you mean they replaced the search bar with Copilot?????? Those of you still clinging onto Windows 10, congratulations, you were right. Enjoy your extended planning time for migration to Linux.

I don't know where this started but I've heard a lot of people parrot some false claim that the Switch versions of Super Mario Galaxy are based on the Shield version. They are totally unrelated versions with nearly zero similarities, created independently by two different teams.

Bank toad seems to have been removed from the Switch version of SMG2. He just tells you about amiibo now: twitter.com/Odme_/status...

SMG1+2 technical info: The new Switch port of Super Mario Galaxy is based on the 3D All Stars version (although naturally, there are a significant number of changes). Like SMG1, SMG2 uses Hagi for graphics/audio emulation, and the code itself was compiled natively for Switch.

This floor is the most noticeably-changed texture shown from SMG1+2 so far, and wow it looks like a cheap fanmade "HD" emulator texture pack... Nice seams, by the way.

Mario Galaxy 1+2's HUD is... smaller. In like, an offputting sort of way that's hard to describe. Like, the proportions are wrong, or something. Skyward Sword HD was the same way. And given it shares the exact same scope as SMG1+2, I'm inclined to believe Tantalus did this.

I WAS JOKING

I would like to once again point out that we do not have the good instrumental trailer version of the Kirby and the Forgotten Land main theme, only the boring flute "bonus" version, even after the soundtrack has been released two times now www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiPc...

"gee the battery in this vintage powerbook doesn't seem to be working, i sure hope it didn't corrode toxic nickel cadmium all over the place" the battery compartment:

After 100%ing DK Bananza I've given it some time to simmer, thinking I might become jaded with the game like I did with Mario Odyssey... but, no. DK shows that EPD Tokyo has still got it. Odyssey was just a fluke. I hope Tears of the Kingdom was a fluke, too.

The Donkey Kong Bananza final boss gives you a glimpse at what the game's Switch 1 framerate would've been like.

why do streamers put chat behind their facecam/vtuber avatar/whatever so the most recent messages, the relevant ones you want to read at that moment, are obscured, please stop this practise

I won't be posting more about this, to respect the Rules™, but I jumped on it and actually got in this time.

Patapon 1+2 (underneath the Unity wrapper) seems to just be a PSP emulator. And it does the typical emulated re-release thing of replacing textures and whatnot at runtime. All expected, since that's what the PS4 versions were.

Nintendo are you SERIOUS right now i think we need to invent a new word for this level of dripfeeding

lol twitter.com/nvnprogram/s...

Unlike MK, DKB actually deserved the Direct, lol. Made me go from "i dunno" to "yeah i'll buy it". Cautiously optimistic, though (I don't wanna get hyped by the trailers and then hate the game a la TotK, and it's clearly the Odyssey team which isn't my favourite game...)

(🧵) I didn't want to say anything until I'd tried it, but now I have. So: Mario Kart World is Nintendo's ONLY LAUNCH TITLE??? And it's $80????? Do they think amount of development time is directly proportional with value to the player? Because it's not.

sorry i have to say it or i'll feel left out, feel free to skip this post deltarune tomorrow

TotK's soundtrack is now on Nintendo Music. It seems to be identical to the Japanese CD release (minus the bonus USB with very high quality and surround sound versions of certain tracks). Which I would've considered a given, but Splatoon from last week was different from Splatune, so, shrug.

So uh, remember that time Paper Mario TTYD released for Switch and it just straight up supported 4K? yeah. Is that just gonna work out of the box on Switch 2? (twitter.com/RibShark/sta...)

It is so amazing to me everybody's hating on the Switch 2's pricing and the one singular defense has been "Yes the prices suck but the tariffs you see" and then Doug Bowser comes in to say "No no no, you misunderstand, the tariffs had nothing to do with it, we *are* greedy"

shoutouts to japanese wikipedia editors for being afraid of copyright infringement so on the super mario galaxy page instead of real screenshots someone drew a mockup of what the game looks like

I'm honestly really glad GameChat on Switch 2 is, uh, "bad". Like, yeah, the screensharing is 2 fps, but I'd rather that than the feature hogging resources from the game.

I'm not satisfied with the explanation we got of Switch 2's backwards compatibility. We were told it's not emulation, but instead "the process of converting game data for Switch to run on Switch 2 is performed on a real-time basis as the data is read in." What does that even mean.

on the treehouse stream lol thanks youtube

(🧵) I don't think I ever shared my crackpot theory about GameCube games on Switch here, so uh, here goes: 3DAS for Switch included Mario Sunshine and Galaxy. These rely on a bespoke emulator named Hagi developed by Nintendo subsidiary Nintendo European Research & Development (NERD).

It's funny that they added the Wii U gamepad back into BotW just another generation later lol.

wow so uh nintendo didn't learn anything from switch, huh :V wtf are they doing

Wow, Nintendo completely botched that explanation of Virtual Game Cards. Like, I get it, but so many people seem to have missed the idea. They really needed to emphasize how ejecting/inserting them requires an internet connection as part of the narration, not a tiny asterisk.

Nintendo what. ??

Helped work on this video about the first-party Wii games released for the Nvidia Shield TV exclusively in China. Explains (in a very high-level oversimplified way, mind you) how it works and what the funny anti-piracy effects are. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mttf...

I see a lot of complaints about games exclusive to a specific console, but I don't like that these almost don't exist anymore. I don't need a whole new system to play games I can already play on my PC. I only have a PS5 because of Astro Bot. I want a reason to buy an Xbox, but there's not one.

There is no longer a reason to buy a ThinkPad (they deleted the nipple): www.pcworld.com/article/2566...